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PLURAL CODE SUPERVISORY CONTROL AND TELEMETERING SYSTEM Filed June 2, 1965 19 Sheets-Sheet 19 United States Patent `l() U.S. Cl. 340-163 '7 Claims ABSTRACT F THE DISCLUSURE A supervisory and control system providing indications of the status of a number of remotely located devices to a central location. Dispatcher controlled apparatus at the central location is utilized to select a remotely located device and then to operate the selected device in a desired mode.

This invention relates to a control system for use in fields such as electric power control, gas or petroleum pipeline control and its similar environments. More particularly, it pertains to a :system providing means for selecting and operating control equipment at a distant point and reporting back to the initiating point an indication of the status of such control equipment. In addition it further includes facilities for the automatic reporting of changes in the status of such control equipment at the distant point to a common control point. In the present system, devices having two states such as (on-off) are supervised or controlled.

The instant system is basically a quiescent system, that is, it remains at rest until a change takes place in the supervised equipment. At that time the signals are telemetered to the master station where audible and visual alarms notify the operator of the location and nature of the change. By operation of controls at the master station, the operator can take appropriate action as required.

In addition, the present system provides facilities for presenting from a remote station, to a master station, on command, telemetered signals indicative of quantitative measurements taken at the remote station.

Accordingly it is the object of this invention to provide a system for controlling equipment at a remote station or a master station and telemetering information between said stations in electric power distribution, pipeline or similar systems.

A rst feature of the instant system is the provision of circuitry providing both high speed and reliable operation in a control system.

A second feature is the inclusion of check-beforeoperate mode of operation as a safeguard to improper operation.

Another feature is the adaptation of similar circuitry for use at both master and remote stations.

A final feature is the inclusion of circuitry that may be readily expanded to provide for enlargement of the system based on the addition of additional control points at the remote station.

The above-mentioned and other objects and features of the invention and the manner of obtaining them will become more apparent and the invention itself will be best understood by reference to the following descripti-on of the invention taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings comprising FIGS. 1 22, wherein:

FIGS. 1-12 comprise a diagram showing the equipment located in a master station for use in the abovementioned system;

3,465,290 Patented Sept. 2, 1969 FIGS. 13-17 inclusive comprise a diagram of a portion of the equipment located in a remote station for use in the instant system:

FIG. 18 shows a block diagram of a remote station for use in the above-mentioned system;

FIG. 19 shows a block diagram of a master station for use in the above-mentioned system;

FIG. 20 shows how FIGS. 13-17 are to be arranged;

FIG. 21 shows how FIGS. 18 and 19 are to be arran-ged;

FIG. 22 shows how FIGS. 1-12 are to be arranged.

The instant supervisory control system is designed to control remotely located devices that may be either directly or indirectly electrically actuated. Devices whose status may be determined by the opening or closing of contacts may 'be supervised at a central location. Likewise data whose parameters are available in electrical analog form may be telemetered on request to a central location.

The system as described and disclosed is initially equipped for less than points, however with obvious modification this could easily be expanded to the control and telemetry of up to 1000 devices.

The present system is of the quiescent type. That is to say at both the master and remote stations the operatlon is on a standby basis until `such time as action, either by the master or remote stations, is initiated. This approach provides long operating life because of the lack of constant exercise of components, as is usually found 1n a system employing a continuous scan.

Because of the large number of devices or points that the system can serve it is natural to expect that these devices may be located in many different places. The system, as a result, is designed to handle multiple and remote stations in any reasonable quantity. Several security measures to prevent invalid and perhaps dangerous system operations from occurring are included in the system. The system employs message security, code security, operation security and addressing security.

The method used to generate messages from the master to remote and from remote to the master station has been designed to be similar in philosophy. As a result th-e encoding, decoding and transceiver circuits are identical in operation at Eboth the master and remote stations. These similarities even extend as far as the end element circuits. These circuits do differ since the master station end element circuit such as lamps, pushbuttons, etc. are manually activated, whereas the remote end element circuits, contact supervision, interpose relays, etc. are automatically activated. However the design philosophy is essentially the same.

The present system as described employs frequency shift keying, however, it can readily be adapted to the use of D.C. signalling. Messages transmitted between master and remote stations are subjected to several checks before they either are accepted or rejected by the system. These checks are discussed below.

When a system as disclosed serves 100 points or less, it employs a two digit coded message. A system serving more than 100 points would employ three digit coded message. All two digit messages are composed of l0 binary digits (bits) and all three digit messages would be 15 bits long. One message length is used in a given system depending on the system size. Therefore if any transmission between master and remote stations is distorted in such a way that it is too long or too short it would be rejected.

The code used in the Conitel 10 is the two-out-of-iive (2/5) and the one-out-of-ve (1/5) 74210 binary coded decimal (BCD) format. 

